The Production Process -- Examples?

Economics Economics Questions
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I am a Graphic Designer who has fallen in love with learning about Austrian economics. Basically I want to illustrate the production process of a consumer good in order to help visualize the market behavior. My end goal is to make a book out of these illustratative concepts.

I’m wondering if any of you could direct me to a place that details the production process of a consumer good. (A pencil, ham sandwhich, ect). Spelling out each stage that it takes in order finally end at the consumer good.

I’m not trying to illustrate every stage, but enough to get the general idea across that it takes time and extreme complexity of human action to arrive at a final consumer good.

Any help would be appreciated.

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There’s a show called How It’s Made. They have 15 seasons of episodes showing how things are made. It’s truely brilliant. You basically see the ‘dance’ of capitalism.

The only downside is that they don’t discuss any economics whatsoever. Seeing the visuals itself is inspiring though.

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Thanks a lot, I just watched one on Youtube, very cool and inspiring.

I wish they would go into the whole process though like where the materials come from and go to.

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maybe “I, Pencil” is useful?